Install Fuel-Pump Cut Off Switch

Enersys Odyssey PC680 Battery w/ Automotive Terminals

Weight Reductions:
- Remove Backseats + Rear Seat Belts
- Remove Carpet (Back only)
- Remove Sound Deadening Tar and Firewall Matt
- Remove Knee Bolster
- Remove Cargo Cover
- Remove Spare Tire, Tools, and Jack
- Remove Windshield Washer Fluid Reservoir and Pump (Including all Fittings)
- Remove Tow Hooks
- Remove Rear Wiper and Motor Assembly (Including all Fittings)

Remove Power Steering and AC

Throttle Body and Intake Manifold Coolant By-Pass

Hondata Intake Manifold Heat-shield Gasket

Header Wrap on Intake

Sea-Foam Engine

Paint Trim w/ Duplicolor

Synthetic Oil (5w/ 30)
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This is the list of either free or really cheap upgrades I plan on doing to my car while I am saving up for my engine swap. Is there anything you can think of to do to my car (1997 Civic Hatchback) that's either free or pretty cheap? This is all I could think of.

 

Some of those aren't upgrades lol

 

Has anyone ever done this stuff before... and can anyone make a walkthrough for it... I don't know if I'll be able to take my spare out without instuctions.

Remember I'm not flaming... I'm just helping state the obvious... You're more retarded than the special olympics.

 

Yeah header wrap on intake is a downgrade unless you get the reflective stuff.

 

Ummm... K... I was just asking if anyone can add to the list. Maybe someone has some experience that I haven't heard of yet any can suggest something useful? I am pretty much just bored and wanna do some stuff to the car to either A) make it lighter or B) make it look better or C) help the power a little. If you don't know of anything elseI can add to the list then don't act like a whiny bitch. I wasn't asking how to do it, I'm asking if anyone knows of other things I can do.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by tihul &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Yeah header wrap on intake is a downgrade unless you get the reflective stuff.</TD></TR></TABLE>
thanks 4 the heads up.

 

My 2 cents is..

A-like to have my spare tire, jack and tools in case i have a flat....

B-enjoy having A/C and Power steering because taking it out makes the car less fun to drive and no faster

all the other stuff is kinda silly too but if your bored have fun!

 

Remove your windshield wipers
Remove your seat belts
Remove your airbags

Great ways to save some weight

 

its not like these are revolutionary things that people have never done to their car before. its called weight reduction, its pretty common. i actually came up with all these things BY LOOKING ON HONDA-TECH. now i get flamed for wanting to do the same thing as others have done in the past? every day i lose a little more respect for honda-tech...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by GetawayInMoscow &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Remove your windshield wipers
Remove your seat belts
Remove your airbags

Great ways to save some weight </TD></TR></TABLE>

Bumper supports too

 

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Weight Reductions:
- Remove Backseats + Rear Seat Belts
- Remove Carpet (Back only)
- Remove Sound Deadening Tar and Firewall Matt
- Remove Knee Bolster
- Remove Cargo Cover
- Remove Spare Tire, Tools, and Jack
- Remove Windshield Washer Fluid Reservoir and Pump (Including all Fittings)
- Remove Tow Hooks
- Remove Rear Wiper and Motor Assembly (Including all Fittings)


Paint Trim w/ Duplicolor

Synthetic Oil (5w/ 30)
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like all of these?

if you want some free hp index your spark plugs

 

ok,
#1) A fuel cut off-switch prevents theft. (definate upgrade)
#2)depending on what you want, taking crap out of your car that makes it look good and sound better and be more comfortable may be important to most people. for me, lightweight and handling is more important. if i was going on a long trip, i'd take my cushy tacoma anyway. so, for ME weight reduction is a plus. (upgrade for ME)
#4) my trim is faded as hell and looks like **** so i am painting it. https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=489625 (definate upgrade)
#5) synthetic 5w/ 30 oil is recommended by not only the honda manual, but my C-Speed Racing who use it and reccomend it for all honda engines.

 

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Bumper supports too </TD></TR></TABLE>
that's dangerous. u bump something, well, they are there for a reason. i know u were kidding, but come on man, did i list anything safety oriented or stupid to take out that affects the functionality of the car. give me some fukin credit guys...

 

Gut your car. Gut your doors (including windows). Take out glove box. Remove your entire exhaust after the header. Remove all the bumper supports. Strip the paint off. Shave your head. Shave your arms (with no windows, it will make a difference in your drag coefficient). Shave your armpits and unmentionables (every ounce counts).

And take a big healthy dump before you drive.

BTW, if you live in a climate where you see snow, you may wish to not bypass the intake coolant.

Otherwise, all of these "upgrades" are about as valid as any of the first listed.

 

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BTW, if you live in a climate where you see snow, you may wish to not bypass the intake coolant.
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only useful bit in that post. HT has gone down the drain and been infested by a bunch of jackasses who think that its cool to put people down over the internet. i'm poor, saving for a swap, and want to do sum cheap things to my car. its not a hard concept to understand. to any actual helpful people i have offended, sorry.

 

mods, feel free to delete or close this ****, nothing productive will ever happen in this thread thanx to the retards on ur boards.

 

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It's not the stuff you want to do, i think it has something to do with what you named the thread. People prolly checked it out hoping to learn something new and basically all you did was repost all the obvious ways to reduce weight and obvious things like paint touch up and oil. So, 1) you pissed people off when they see you are posting ****. 2) there is no point to the thread because they didn't learn anythign new. And 3) there is no real technincal info here. That's why you are getting flamed. You should have named it "Compiled list of Cheap/Free Things to do to your car" and asked people to add to it.

 

omfg, sum1 helped and made a positive contribution. a miracle! thanx man, but i thought i made the intent of my post perfectly clear in the description under the list. if they didn't like it, then after reading the description they coulda said, o not wut i thought it was, and left. my intent was not to inform anyone! my intent was to find out more **** that i could do.

 

look man, expletive it

theyre just waving their internet ***** around.

everything you came up with is fine, so expletive it and expletive all the douchebags that make this forum so hostile...


that being said, you might try doing some headlight stuff. Im not too familiar with EK's so i dont know all the exact procedures, but id look into making them "look like CTR" lights or changing the housing or whatever the EK guys do.

to people who arent douchebags on the INTERNET

 

Well like I stated above, I wasn't flaming you... but I will agree that I came to this forum looking for something new that I hadn't thought about doing. None of which was on there... I've been flamed on HT, and so have many people here... being flamed is a part of the forum community... learn from your flameful mistakes and don't make them again. Or do what you should've done in the beginning, something smart.

 

he did nothing to deserve flaming. All he wanted was for someone to fill in things he may have overlooked. That doesnt show incompetence. He also didnt ask how to do any of it, im sure hes capable, just wanted other ideas.


whatever though.

 

Damn what a bunch of ********. Way to up your post count guys.

When you swap the engine, take off that useless bracket under the intake manifold. There's also a useless bracket connecting to the header right below it. Get rid of those metal vacuum/coolant lines between the intake and valve cover. They're ******* ugly.

Get a "rear diffuser" off a VX (EGs only).

 

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if you want some free hp index your spark plugs</TD></TR></TABLE>

educate me..

 

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Remove Sound Deadening Tar and Firewall Matt

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Remove Cargo Cover</TD></TR></TABLE>

to rare, and they great for hiding systems

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Remove Spare Tire, Tools, and Jack</TD></TR></TABLE>

dont break down.....

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Remove Windshield Washer Fluid Reservoir and Pump (Including all Fittings)</TD></TR></TABLE>

dirty windows


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Remove Power Steering and AC</TD></TR></TABLE>

such good luxeries to have tho

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Sea-Foam Engine

Paint Trim w/ Duplicolor

Synthetic Oil (5w/ 30)</TD></TR></TABLE>

highly reccommended

 

you could just remove your passanger side wiper... thinking about doing it...